Gallatin has lost a most distinguished citizen, so old that visitors might well have become overcome with smoke from the 107 candles on her last birthday cake. I doubt she would have been able to enjoy her 108th birthday come May 31, but we can all agree it would have been a celebration of survival.

Helen Graham had the spirit and philosophy of those pioneer women who

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